A lightweight thread is a Thread

[Christopher Hunt]

Thanks Alan. I missed that particular “thread”. ;-)

“Virtual thread” is better, but I’m still wondering if “cooperative thread” vs “preemptive thread” is more descriptive...

I also like how there’s no hierarchy of thread types also. 

Naming is hard. :-)

> On 3 Feb 2020, at 17:56, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/02/2020 02:28, Christopher Hunt wrote:
>> Is “lightweight” descriptive enough if we are essentially discerning pre-emptive threads from cooperative ones, or kernel ones from user land ones? Would it therefore be more useful to introduce a hierarchy reflecting the scheduling nature nature of a thread?
>> 
>> Also, as a term, “lightweight” tends to survive only until something more lightweight comes along.
>> 
> The discussion thread "Virtual Threads: A Short Note about Naming" [1] and the Thread's updated class description in the current prototype [2] should help get you up to speed on this topic.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/loom-dev/2019-November/000864.html
> [2] https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Thread.html